Ba Summoner (3.5e Class)

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Ba Summoner

When a creature perishes, its soul departs for the ethereal plane and then beyond to its afterlife. For a brief moment, the creature is but a ghost, a personality and memory imprinted on the mutable mists of the ethereal plane. The ba summoner has named this temporary state the "ba", and has found a way to take the imprint and stabilize it before it is washed away by time and the flow of mist. With the magic of the ba summoner, they may breath new life into their creatures so that they will live again, this time fighting on the side of the summoner.

Making a Ba Summoner

Abilities: Ba summoners rely on a strong Charisma to cajole the ethereal streams to their doing. It sets the save DCs for their spells, and the number of spells per day. As they will often go into the heat of battle, they need a sturdy Constitution score in order not to die, and Dexterity will keep their AC up. Intelligence gives them more skills to work with, leaving Wisdom and Strength least important.

Races: Any.

Alignment: Any.

Starting Gold: 5d4×10 gp (125 gp).

Starting Age: As wizard.

Table: The Ba Summoner

Hit Die: d8

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Saving Throws			Special	Spells per Day
		Fort	Ref	Will		0	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1st	+0	+0	+0	+2	Akh Totem (1), Obtain Spirit Medium (1), Summon Ba	4	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2nd	+1	+0	+0	+3	Akh Binding	5	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3rd	+1	+1	+1	+3	Medium Power	5	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4th	+2	+1	+1	+4	Akh Totem (2)	5	5	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5th	+2	+1	+1	+4	Channal Ba (1)	5	5	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
6th	+3	+2	+2	+5	Obtain Spirit Medium (2)	5	5	4	2	—	—	—	—	—	—
7th	+3	+2	+2	+5	Spelltouched Summoning (1)	5	5	5	3	—	—	—	—	—	—
8th	+4	+2	+2	+6	Akh Totem (3)	5	5	5	4	2	—	—	—	—	—
9th	+4	+3	+3	+6	Medium Power	5	5	5	5	3	—	—	—	—	—
10th	+5	+3	+3	+7	Warp Gate (Transport)	5	5	5	5	4	2	—	—	—	—
11th	+5	+3	+3	+7	Overdrive	5	5	5	5	5	3	—	—	—	—
12th	+6/+1	+4	+4	+8	Akh Totem (4), Obtain Spirit Medium (3)	5	5	5	5	5	4	2	—	—	—
13th	+6/+1	+4	+4	+8	Warp Gate (Calling)	5	5	5	5	5	5	3	—	—	—
14th	+7/+2	+4	+4	+9	Spelltouched Summoning (2)	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	2	—	—
15th	+7/+2	+5	+5	+9	Medium Power	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	3	—	—
16th	+8/+3	+5	+5	+10	Akh Totem (5)	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	2	—
17th	+8/+3	+5	+5	+10	Channal Ba (2)	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	3	—
18th	+9/+4	+6	+6	+11	Obtain Spirit Medium (4)	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	2
19th	+9/+4	+6	+6	+11	Gaurdian Force	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	3
20th	+10/+5	+6	+6	+12	Akh Totem (6), Twin Summons	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Class Skills (4 + Int modifier per level, ×4 at 1st level) Bluff (Cha), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (arcana) (nature) (religion) (the planes) (Int), Profession (Wis), Speak Language (None), Spellcraft (Int). Class Features All of the following are class features of the ba summoner. Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Ba Summoners are proficient with all simple weapons. They are not proficient with any type of armor or shield. Armor of any type interferes with a ba summoner's gestures, which can cause her spells with somatic components to fail. Spells: A ba summoner casts arcane spells which are drawn primarily from the ba summoner spell list (see below). She can cast any spell she knows without preparing it ahead of time, the way a wizard or a cleric must. To learn or cast a spell, a ba summoner must have a Charisma score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a ba summoner's spell is 10 + the spell level + the ba summoner's Charisma modifier. Like other spellcasters, a ba summoner can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. Her base daily spell allotment is given on Table: The Ba Summoner. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Charisma score. A ba summoner's selection of spells is extremely limited. A ba summoner begins play knowing three 0-level spells and one 1st-level spells of your choice. At each new ba summoner level, she gains one or more new spells, as indicated on Table: Ba Summoner Spells Known (unlike spells per day, the number of spells a ba summoner knows is not affected by her Charisma score; the numbers on Table: Ba Summoner Spells Known are fixed.) Upon reaching 4th level, and at every even-numbered ba summoner level after that (6th, 8th, and so on), a ba summoner can choose to learn a new spell in place of one she already knows. In effect, the ba summoner “loses” the old spell in exchange for the new one. The new spell’s level must be the same as that of the spell being exchanged, and it must be at least one level lower than the highest-level ba summoner spell the ba summoner can cast. A ba summoner may swap only a single spell at any given level, and must choose whether or not to swap the spell at the same time that she gains new spells known for the level. Unlike a wizard or a cleric, a ba summoner need not prepare her spells in advance. She can cast any spell he knows at any time, assuming she has not yet used up her spells per day for that spell level. She does not have to decide ahead of time which spells she’ll cast. 0—<-spells, spells, spells-> 1st—<-spells, spells, spells-> 2nd—<-spells, spells, spells-> 3rd—<-spells, spells, spells-> 4th—<-spells, spells, spells-> 5th—<-spells, spells, spells-> 6th—<-spells, spells, spells-> 7th—<-spells, spells, spells-> 8th—<-spells, spells, spells-> 9th—<-spells, spells, spells-> Table: Ba Summoner Spells Known Level Spells Known 0 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 1st 3 1 — — — — — — — — 2nd 4 1 — — — — — — — — 3rd 4 2 — — — — — — — — 4th 5 2 1 — — — — — — — 5th 5 3 1 — — — — — — — 6th 6 3 1 1 — — — — — — 7th 6 4 2 1 — — — — — — 8th 7 4 2 1 1 — — — — — 9th 7 4 3 2 1 — — — — — 10th 8 4 3 2 1 1 — — — — 11th 8 4 4 3 2 1 — — — — 12th 8 4 4 3 2 1 1 — — — 13th 8 4 4 3 3 2 1 — — — 14th 8 4 4 3 3 2 1 1 — — 15th 8 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 — — 16th 8 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 — 17th 8 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 1 — 18th 8 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 19th 8 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 20th 8 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 Ank Totem: <-class feature game rule information-> Obtain Spirit Medium: <-class feature game rule information-> Air Spirit (Su): <-subclass feature game rule information-> Beast Spirit (Su): <-subclass feature game rule information-> Cloud Spirit (Su): <-subclass feature game rule information-> Earth Spirit (Su): <-subclass feature game rule information-> Flame Spirit (Su): <-subclass feature game rule information-> Night Spirit (Su): <-subclass feature game rule information-> Star Spirit (Su): <-subclass feature game rule information-> Steel Spirit (Su): <-subclass feature game rule information-> Water Spirit (Su): <-subclass feature game rule information-> Wood Spirit (Su): <-subclass feature game rule information-> Summon Ba (Sp): <-class feature game rule information-> Ank Binding (Su): <-class feature game rule information-> Medium Power: <-class feature game rule information-> Channel Ba (Sp): <-class feature game rule information-> Spelltouched Summoning (Su): <-class feature game rule information-> Warp Gate (Sp): <-class feature game rule information-> Overdrive (Su): <-class feature game rule information-> Gaurdian Force (Su): <-class feature game rule information-> Twin Summons: <-class feature game rule information-> Epic Ba Summoner Table: The Epic Ba Summoner Hit Die: d8 Level Special 21st Spelltouched Summoning (3) 22nd 23rd 24th Akh Totem (7), Obtain Spirit Medium (5) 25th 26th 27th 28th Akh Totem (8), Spelltouched Summoning (2) 29th 30th Obtain Spirit Medium (6) 4 + Int modifier skill points per level. Ank Totem: At 24th level and every four levels beyond, the ba summoner can retain another ank totem. Obtain Spirit Medium: At 24th and every six levels beyond, the ba summoner can select another spirit medium to bind with. Spelltouched Summoning: At 21st level and every seven levels beyond, the ba summoner can deploy another harmless spell on her creatures as part of the act of summoning them. Elven Ba Summoner Starting Package Weapons: Quarterstaff. Skill Selection: Pick a number of skills equal to 4 + Int modifier. Skill Ranks Ability Armor Check Penalty Concentration 4 Con — Diplomacy 4 Cha — Knowledge The Planes 4 Int — Spellcraft 4 Int — Feat: Dodge Gear: Backpack. Gold: 123gp. Campaign Information Playing a Ba Summoner Religion: In many places ba summoners are seen as religious and spiritual figures. It is they who interact with the souls of the departed and learn the mysteries beyond. However in other cultures, their art is seen as a defilement and instead of priests, they are heretics. Who the ba summoner worships, if at all, is largely a cultural issue. Other Classes: Ba summoners have an unsteady relationship with clerics. Their powers are arcane and not divinely granted, yet they use copies of the dead to their own ends. While some clerics can see merit in it, others find it heresy. Necromancers, meanwhile, can perfectly understand the ba summoners, as well as conjurers and others focused on the summoning arts. Combat: Ba summoners are the Big Stupid Fighter, but only indirectly. They play chess, with their summons as chess pieces, and do best not getting into the thick of battle themselves. Advancement: While ba summoners can multiclass into any arcane prestige class, they lose out on their most powerful feature, their summons. Most ba summoners choose to remain single classed. Ba Summoners in the World “ Scorch the earth bare, Ifrit, ba of flames! ” —Grimhilde, Elven Ba Summoner Daily Life: <-day in the life of a character of this class->. Notables: <-notable NPCs of this class->. Organizations: <-info on what, where, when, and how characters of this class congregate and assemble->. NPC Reactions: <-How NPCs react to PCs of this class->. Ba Summoner Lore Characters with ranks in Knowledge The Planes can research ba summoners to learn more about them. When a character makes a skill check, read or paraphrase the following, including information from lower DCs. Knowledge The Planes DC Result 10 <-common knowledge->. 15 <-not so common knowledge->. 20 <-rare information->. 30 Those who reach this level of success can research specific ba summoners, their whereabouts, motives, ank totems they possess, and other details. Ba Summoners in the Game Adaptation: The flavor is vaguely egyptian, but the class isn't tied to that theme. They can easily be any generic or unique summoning class. Sample Encounter: The elven witch Grimhilde has returned from her exile in the desert with an army of monsters under her beck and call. Will she get revenge on the elven community which expelled her? EL 15: PENDING. Back to Main Page → 3.5e Homebrew → Classes → Base Classes